Critical Writing Index

Mars Attacks: Canada's senior stateswoman of performance takes two limosines full of virtue and vice to the streets of Toronto

by Sarah Milroy

The Globe and Mail, June 10, 2004

Sarah Milroy writes with Tanya Mars' and about Mars' latest performance work, Tyranny of Bliss. Mars travels with fourteen passengers in two limosines to fourteen locations around downtown Toronto, where artists enact scenes based on the theme of the seven virtues and seven vices (greed, pride, wrath, sloth, gluttony, lust, envy, truth, wisdom, justice, courage, tolerance, love, hope).

ITEM 2004.021 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Tyranny of BlissTanya Mars